William Worthington Jordan

William Worthington Jordan (1849–1886) was a hunter, trader, and writer in Southern Africa.

Born at Wynberg in the Cape Colony, Jordan was of mixed race. He became a trader and hunter in what is now Botswana and Namibia. In 1880 he established a trading post in southern Angola.[1]

Having bought a large area of land from the Ovambo people, Jordan donated some of it to Boer settlers who in 1885 established the short-lived republic of Upingtonia. This did not long survive his death in 1886.[2]

Jordan's Journal of the Trek Boers to Mossamedes appeared in the Cape Quarterly Review in 1881.[3] In 1883 his From Damaraland to the Nhemba Country: Extract from the Diary of W. W. Jordan appeared in the same journal.

Notes
  1. Chris Marais, Julienne Du Toit, A Drink of Dry Land (2006), p. 174
  2. W. J. De Kock, ed., Dictionary of South African biography vol. 3 (1977), p. 249
  3. Victor L. Tonchi, William A. Lindeke, John J. Grotpeter, Historical Dictionary of Namibia (2012), p. 186
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